Note, Dec. 6, 3:25 p.m.: A scoring change on Wednesday took away one of Fritz’s assists in Friday’s game, leaving him with four points, one short of the team record.

BRIDGEPORT — His coach still calls him “the ultimate utility player,” and Tanner Fritz is filling a hole as usual for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. That hole happens to be top-line center, but who’s counting?

Since Fritz arrived on a pro tryout in 2015-16, Bridgeport Sound Tigers coach Brent Thompson has loved that he can play Fritz just about anywhere up front. And he more or less has.

“He can play on your first line or your fourth line. He can play center or right wing. He can play power play or penalty kill,” Thompson said.

“I’m looking at his NHL potential,” Thompson added. “If you’ve got an NHL spot, if there’s an injury, he’s a guy who can go up and help the Islanders win.”

And in the meantime, Fritz, playing under an NHL contract for the first time, is helping Bridgeport.

He became the fifth player in team history to score five points in a game when his overtime winner capped a 7-6 win in Utica on Friday. He also scored Saturday in a shootout loss to the Comets in Bridgeport.

Fritz has eight multipoint games, two more than games when he’s been held scoreless. He went into Tuesday in fourth place in AHL scoring with 25 points on seven goals and 18 assists, five behind the lead of his linemate’s brother, Hershey’s Chris Bourque. His 19 even-strength points were one off the league leader, Manitoba’s Jack Roslovic.

Thompson sees a pretty consistent player over the years, but if Fritz had to pick something that has come the furthest, “I’d say confidence, belief in myself,” he said. “I’m trying to make the best of the opportunity they’ve given me here, all the staff.

“It’s obviously a credit to the guys I’m playing with.”

Fritz has mostly played with veterans Ryan Bourque and Steve Bernier on his wings, which doesn’t hurt. On his record-tying night Friday, though, four defensemen also had points on the five goals on which he was involved. (There was a sixth goal on which he was in, actually, but he was fourth-to-last to touch the puck, and only three get points.)

“As the game’s going on, you don’t really pay attention to that,” Fritz said. “After the game, the guys were going, ‘you know how many points you had?’ I had no idea.”

The other four Sound Tigers to do it include some prominent names in team history, Blake Comeau (whose five-point game followed up a four-assist game), Jeff Tambellini, Greg Mauldin and Ryan Strome.

That’s three who were top prospects at the time and a veteran who’d made his name in the AHL already. Fritz stands apart as a player who earned his way up, from a tryout two years ago to an AHL contract last year to an NHL deal

“What separates him is his effort level,” Thompson said. “He comes to practice hard every day.”

Fritz started the year at third-line right wing. He moved to the middle in Game 2 and moved up to the top line when Stephen Gionta was injured in Game 3.

Save for Alan Quine’s rehab stint and a couple of games Fritz missed when his legs got tangled up in a play along the boards at Hartford, he’s been the top-line centerman ever since, getting time on the top power play.

AGAINST THE WORLD: USA Hockey on Tuesday named New Canaan’s Patrick Harper and Greenwich’s Phil Kemp and Jack Badini to its 28-man preliminary roster for the upcoming World Junior Championship in Buffalo, N.Y. Islanders draft pick Kieffer Bellows is also on the list; he and Harper won gold with Team USA at last year’s tournament. The team will cut down to 23 before the tournament begins Dec. 26.